I WILL TELL YOU #50.1 Yes, Virginia, There’s Still A Santa Claus Since this the first Christmas since the site went live, I’d like to repost a holiday piece I ran here last year but actually first wrote in 2005, a column that was the result of a really audacious idea I had. What’s that idea, you…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! And because it’s that time of the year, today I’m Retro Reviewing, yes, I just turned my column’s name into a verb, D C Comics’ Batman # 219. Well technically, this review will be of the second Batman story in this issue. The first story entitled; “Death Casts…
I WILL TELL YOU: Super Santa As Christmas is nearly upon us, I’d like to repost a column that I did several years ago, where I unabashedly propose a re-imagining of Santa Claus for today’s social climate. I actually posted this here on B2TP a year ago, but since our audience consisted of about six people…
Hey kids, comics! And this week I’m looking at The Brave and the Bold # 84, from D C Comics, cover dated July 1969. As I am sure you know Brave & Bold was DC’s Batman team-up book. It didn’t start out that way, but that’s what it turned into a couple of years before…
Hello and welcome to another edition of Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW. This week I’m going to look at another comic book, but one from two publishers! Yes, that’s right, it’s one of the Special Collector’s Issues, or in this case, a Marvel Treasury Special, i.e. one of the oversized, ten by thirteen inch comics that Marvel…
Happy Friday to all my regular readers! This week I’m still going through Marvel Comics’ Marvel Premiere series. And today, that brings me to Marvel Premiere # 15, featuring Iron Fist! The comic is cover dated May, 1974 and has a nice Gil Kane and Dick Giordano cover. The comic provides the reader with the first look, as…
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving and be careful out there on Black Friday! Just to mix things up and throw you a bit of a curve, this week I’m going to stay with Marvel Comics, and also with Marvel Premiere, this time issue # 3. This issue is cover dated July 1972 and features;…
“There are places I’ll remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better. Some have gone, and some remain. All these places have their moments with lovers and friends I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living; in my life, I’ve loved them all.”” In My Life, from…
This week I’ve pulled out my copy of Marvel Premiere # 1, cover dated April 1971, and featuring, The Power Of Warlock. It has a lovely cover of the new star of the book, Warlock, as well as, the Hulk and Thor, as drawn by the art team of Gil Kane and Dan Adkins. The…
Welcome back to Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW. This week I would like to talk about Wham-O Giant Comics # 1 and only one! It was published, per the indicia, in April 1967, by Wham-O Manufacturing Company and it was suppose to be the first in a series of giant-sized comics released on a quarterly basis by the…